The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

SHEFFIELD, CHARLES (A.) (stories) (continued)

• * _Summertide (Gollancz 0-575-05021-7, Apr ’91, £3.99, 257pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Heritage Universe] Reprint (Del Rey 1990) sf novel. Book One of “The Heritage Universe”.
• * *Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37808-2, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $13.95, 375pp, tp, cover by Bruce Jensen) SF novel. A man freezes himself and his dying wife in hope of finding a future cure, and wakes millions of years in the future.
• * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Easton Press no ISBN, Jan ’97, no price, 375pp, hc) SF novel. This is the first hardcover edition, published “simultaneously” with the Bantam Spectra trade paperback edition listed in December. This special leatherbound, gilt-edged edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of SF” series available by subscription only.
• * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (SFBC #15302, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $9.98, 375pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) SF novel of cryogenic “time travel.” This hardcover edition is otherwise similar to the Bantam Spectra trade paperback edition. It lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57889-8, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $5.99, 422pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1997) SF novel of cryogenic “time travel” to the end of the universe.
• * *Trader’s World (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34432-4, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 279pp, pb) [Mike Asparian] Sf novel set on an Earth recovering from a worldwide war. Some sections previously published. (Contents)
• * _Trader’s World (NEL 0-450-49729-1, May ’89, £2.99, 279pp, pb) [Mike Asparian] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Transcendence (Gollancz 0-575-05264-3, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], £14.99, 270pp, hc) [Heritage Universe] Sf novel. Book three of “The Heritage Universe”.
• * *Transcendence (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36981-5, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $18.00, 275pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Heritage Universe] Sf novel, third book of the “Heritage Universe” series.
• * _Transcendence (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36982-3, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.99, 293pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Heritage Universe] Reprint (Del Rey 1992) sf novel, third book of the “Heritage Universe” series.
• * _The Web Between the Worlds (Ace 0-441-87864-4, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.50, 274pp, pb) Reissue (Ace 1979) sf novel.
• * _The Web Between the Worlds (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34435-9, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.50, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1979) sf novel about the building of an elevator to orbit. This edition has an added 1988 note on Dynamic Beanstalks.
• * _The Web Between the Worlds (Sphere 0-7474-0386-4, Jul ’89, £3.50, 257pp, pb, cover by Gerry Grace) Reprint (Ace 1979) sf novel. This edition contains the article on “How to Build a Beanstalk” from the 1988 Del Rey edition.

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• * *How to Save the World (Tor 0-312-85577-X, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $23.95, 349pp, hc, cover by David Mattingly) Original anthology of 13 SF stories featuring outrageous, high-tech solutions to the world’s problems. (Contents)
• * *The World of 2044: Technological Development and the Future of Society (with Marcelo Alonso & Morton A. Kaplan) (Professors World Peace Academy/Paragon House 0-943852-57-9, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $19.95, 381pp, tp) Associational non-fiction, a collection of essays by scientists and SF writers, including Pohl, Bova, etc., predicting future technological developments and their impact. A hardcover edition (-49-8, $29.95) was announced but not seen. Order from Paragon House, 370 Lexington Ave, New York NY 10017.

SHEFNER, EVELYN (1919- ) (stories)

• * *Common Body, Royal Bones (Coffee House Press 0-918273-33-1, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $9.95, 119pp, tp) Collection of 3 literary stories, one about a woman who transmits her thoughts and another about a 7-foot-tall princess from a mythical European country. (Contents)

SHELDEN, MICHAEL

• * *Orwell: A Biography (HarperCollins 0-06-016709-2, Nov ’91 [Dec ’91], $25.00, 497pp, hc) Non-fiction, a massive authorized biography of the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. [Orwell]
• * _Orwell: A Biography (HarperPerennial 0-06-092161-7, Oct ’92 [Jan ’93], $15.00, 590pp, tp) Reprint (HarperCollins 1991) non-fiction, a massive authorized biography of the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. [Orwell]

SHELDON, ALICE (Hastings Bradley Davey) (1915-1987); see pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. (stories) (chron.)

SHELDON, CHARLIE

• * *Fat Chance (Pocket 0-671-73591-8, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 259pp, pb) Caper thriller with sf elements. A company develops a new drug that instantly flushes fat from arteries and everybody wants a piece of the formula and the inventor.

SHELDON, DYAN (stories)

• * *Haunted: Save the Last Dance For Me (Bantam UK 0-553-40609-4, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], £2.99, 221pp, pb) [Haunted] Young-adult ghost novel. Volume two in the series.
• * *Haunted: You Can Never Go Home Anymore (Bantam UK 0-553-40608-6, Jun ’93, £2.99, 222pp, pb) [Haunted] Young-adult ghost novel. Volume one in the series.

SHELDON, SIDNEY (1917-2007)

• * *The Doomsday Conspiracy (Morrow 0-688-08489-3, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $22.00, 412pp, hc) Mainstream thriller with sf elements. The crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps leads a U.S. Navy investigator to a deadly conspiracy involving alien visitors.
• * _The Doomsday Conspiracy (Warner 0-446-36366-9, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $5.99, 401pp, pb) Reprint (Morrow 1991) mainstream thriller with sf elements. The crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps leads a US Navy investigator to a deadly conspiracy involving alien visitors.

SHELLEY, MARY W(ollstonecraft Godwin) (1797-1851) (stories)

• * _Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein (with Bernie Wrightson) (Charles F. Miller 0-88733-193-9, Dec ’94, $15.95, 188pp, tp, cover by Bernie Wrightson) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Marvel Comics; Dodd, Mead & Co. 1983 as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein). This reprint edition has darker reproductions of the artwork; some detail has been lost. Introduction by Stephen King. Also available in hardcover (-194-7, $24.95).
• * _Dracula/Frankenstein (with Bram Stoker) See entry under Bram Stoker.
• * _Frankenstein (with David Campton) See entry under David Campton.
• * _Frankenstein (Running Press 0-89471-520-8, Dec ’87, £3.95, 170pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. [Not seen]
• * _Frankenstein (Blackie 0-216-92326-3, Oct ’88 [Nov ’88], £9.95, 222pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. This edition is illustrated throughout by the late Charles Keeping.
• * _Frankenstein (Peter Bedrick/Blackie 0-87226-190-5, Nov ’88 [Jan ’89], $18.95, 222pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint of the 19th-century classic sf/horror novel, with new illustrations by the late Charles Keeping. This is identical inside to the 1988 British edition from Blackie. The text is unabridged and has both the 1818 and 1831 prefaces.
• * _Frankenstein (Running Press/Courage 0-89471-882-7, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $4.98, 170pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel, with an essay by Robert Kiely. This is an instant remainder edition.
• * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-035107-8, Oct ’90 [Nov ’90], $2.25, 215pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel, with the 1831 introduction by the author and the 1818 preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This is a worldwide edition.
• * _Frankenstein (Bantam 0-553-21247-8, Nov ’91, $1.95, 209pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reissue (Lackington 1818) classic horror/sf novel with an introduction by Diane Johnson; 15th printing.
• * _Frankenstein (Everyman’s Library 0-460-87149-8, Oct ’92 [Nov ’92], £3.99, 243pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) classic horror novel. This edition contains the original 1818 text, the play Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s 1831 account of the composition of Frankenstein, and an introduction by Paddy Lyons. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $2.95. (Contents)
• * _Frankenstein (Penguin 0-14-043362-7, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $3.50, 320pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is the text of the 1831 revised edition, with an introduction by Maurice Hindle. This volume also contains John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” and the fragment by Lord Byron also written that summer.
• * _Frankenstein (Random House/Modern Library 0-679-60059-0, Aug ’93 [Dec ’93], $14.50, 303pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is the revised text of the 1831 edition.
• * _Frankenstein (Penguin Popular Classics 0-14-062030-3, Feb ’94 [Mar ’94], £1.00, 215pp, pb, cover by Thomas Eakins) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Thrift paperback edition of the classic.
• * _Frankenstein (University of California Press 0-520-08942-1, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $14.95, 254pp, tp, cover by Barry Moser) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is a facsimile of the 1983 Pennyroyal Press edition, with woodcuts by Barry Moser and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. The text is that of the original 1818 edition rather than the more common 1831 revision. Available from the University of California Press, Berkeley CA 94720.
• * _Frankenstein (Dover 0-486-28211-2, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], $1.00, 166pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Unabridged reprinting of the third edition (Colburn & Bentley 1831), with publisher’s note and author’s introduction.
• * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Signet Classic 0-451-18377-0, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $3.99, 224pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Movie tie-in with 8 pages of movie stills. The text follows the 1831 third edition.
• * _Frankenstein (Tor 0-812-55150-8, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $4.99, 236pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Frankenstein] Reissue (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. Third printing.
• * _Frankenstein (Wordsworth 1-85326-846-1, Nov ’94, £3.99, 163pp, hc, cover by Paolo Mascagni) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) horror novel. Thrift hardback edition.
• * _Frankenstein (Pan 0-330-33705-X, Nov ’94 [Dec ’94], £4.99, 223pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) horror novel. A film tie-in edition, with an Afterword by Harold Bloom.
• * _Frankenstein (Simon & Schuster/Washington Square Press 0-671-53150-6, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $4.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Janet Woolley) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is a “WSP Enriched Classic” and includes Shelley’s 1831 introduction, critical excerpts, and extensive notes, with 16 pp. of period illustrations and photos. The introduction to this edition is by Anne K. Mellor.
• * *Frankenstein (Norton 0-393-96458-2, May ’96 [Nov ’96], $7.95, 336pp, tp, cover by Caspar David Friedrich) [Frankenstein] A critical edition of the classic horror novel, edited by J. Paul Hunter, with a section of “Nineteenth-Century Responses” and a collection of 12 modern essays. The novel itself is based on the 1818 Lackington first edition, with notes. A chronology and selected bibliography are included, along with related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori.
• * _Frankenstein (Penguin/Viking Children’s Books 0-670-87801-4, Aug ’98 [Oct ’98], $17.99, 255pp, tp, cover by Philippe Munch) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington 1818) classic horror novel. This is part of “The Whole Story” series for young adults, extensively illustrated with period art and new drawings by Philippe Munch, with explanatory captions providing historical background; it was originally published in France (Gallimard 1997). A hardcover edition (-87800-6, $25.99) was announced but not seen.
• * _Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford University Press 0-19-282283-7, Sep ’94, £3.99, 261pp, pb, cover by Odilon Redon) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Marilyn Butler. (Contents)
• * _Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (Pickering & Chatto 1-85196-051-1, Apr ’93 [May ’93], £24.95, 266pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) classic horror novel. This edition contains the 1818 text, edited and introduced by Marilyn Butler, with an appendix discussing the changes made for the 1831 edition.
• * _Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus (University of California Press 0-520-05281-1, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $29.50, 254pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Reprint, a one-volume facsimile of Pennyroyal Press’ 1983 limited edition with superb illustrations by Barry Moser. Set from the original 1818 edition instead of the standard 1831 revised one.
• * _Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (Purnell 0-361-08208-8, Aug ’88, £2.99, 125pp, tp) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) horror novel. Abridged by Wendy Hobson. Illustrated throughout by Caroline Church.
• * _The Last Man (Oxford University Press 0-19-283152-6, Mar ’94 [Apr ’94], £6.99, 479pp, pb) Reprint (Colburn 1826) SF novel, edited, annotated, and introduced by Morton D. Paley.
• * _The Last Man (Bantam 0-553-21436-5, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], $5.50, 488pp, pb, cover by Thomas Coke) Reprint (Colburn 1826) very early SF novel, with a new introduction by Marge Piercy.
• * *The Mary Shelley Reader (Oxford University Press 0-19-506259-0, Jul ’90 [Mar ’91], $14.95, 420pp, tp) Collection of Shelley’s work, including Frankenstein and Mathilda in their entirety, seven stories, essays, reviews, and letters. The Frankenstein text is the rare 1818 first edition, not the heavily revised 1831 one which is the source for most reprints. The 1831 introduction is also included. A hardcover edition (-506250-2) was announced but not seen. (Contents) [ed: Betty T. Bennett] [ed: Charles E. Robinson]
• * +Maurice, or The Fisher’s Cot (Random House/Knopf/Borzoi 0-375-40473-2, 1998 [Oct ’98], $20.00, 179pp, hc, cover by Reginald Easton) Associational non-genre short story about a boy stolen and raised by a fisherman’s wife. The story was only recently discovered in Italy, and is copyrighted by finders Andrea & Christina Dazzi; the latter also provides a brief preface. A lengthy biographical and critical introduction by Claire Tomalin notes contrasts in the story’s themes to those of Frankenstein. A transcription of the author’s original text, with emendations, is included. First US edition; apparently published in “slightly different form” by Viking UK (not seen).
• * *The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Stories of Mary Shelley (Tachyon Publications no ISBN, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $10.00, 58pp, tp) Collection of five stories, with a “narrative introduction” by Michael Bishop. These versions of the stories were previously collected as part of Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press 1976, edited by Charles E. Robinson). A limited edition of 900; also available in a signed (by Bishop), limited hardcover edition (not seen) of 100. Order from Tachyon Publications, 1459 18th Street, San Francisco CA 94107. (Contents)

SHELLEY, RICHARD M.; see under Shelley, Rick (stories)

SHELLEY, RICK; [i.e., Richard Michael Shelley] (1947-2001) (stories)

• * *The Buchanan Campaign (Ace 0-441-00292-7, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $5.99, 375pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Buchanan Campaign] Military SF novel. A peaceful colony planet is dragged into an interplanetary war.
• * *The Fires of Coventry (Ace 0-441-00385-0, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Buchanan Campaign] Military SF novel, set in the same universe as The Buchanan Campaign.
• * *Jump Pay (Ace 0-441-00230-7, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $5.50, 284pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardner) [Lucky 13th] Military SF. Third in the series featuring the “Lucky 13th” spaceborne.
• * _Jump Pay (Ace 0-441-00230-7, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $5.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Stephen Gardner) [Lucky 13th] Reissue (Ace 1995) military SF novel. Third in the series featuring the “Lucky 13th” spaceborne. Second printing.
• * *Lieutenant (Ace 0-441-00568-3, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.99, 268pp, pb, cover by Duane O. Meyers) [Dirigent Mercenary Corps] Military SF novel, second in the “Dirigent Mercenary Corps” trilogy.
• * *Officer-Cadet (Ace 0-441-00526-8, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $5.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Duane O. Myers) [Dirigent Mercenary Corps] Military SF novel of the “Dirigent Mercenary Corps”. An unjustly expelled military-academy cadet is determined to prove himself in the DMC.
• * *Return to Camerein (Ace 0-441-00496-2, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $5.99, 330pp, pb, cover by Dave Dorman) Military SF novel. Stranded humans hope to escape the planet Camerein as a truce is called.
• * *The Seven Towers: The Wizard at Home (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45422-7, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 254pp, pb, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) [Seven Towers] Fantasy novel, second in the series. In medieval England, the wizard Silvas acquires the powers of a goddess — and some angry gods want him dead.
• * *The Seven Towers: The Wizard at Mecq (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45361-1, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $4.99, 285pp, pb) [Seven Towers] Historical fantasy novel set in 12th-century England, first book of a new series.
• * *Side Show (Ace 0-441-00123-8, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $4.99, 232pp, pb, cover by Steve Gardiner) [Lucky 13th] Military SF novel, second in the series featuring the “Lucky 13th” Spaceborne fighting force. This series is packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
• * *Until Relieved (Ace 0-441-00019-3, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $4.99, 236pp, pb, cover by Roger Loveless) [Lucky 13th] Military sf novel about the exploits of the 13th Spaceborne. First book of a new series packaged and copyrighted by Bill Fawcett & Associates.
• * _Until Relieved (Ace 0-441-00019-3, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $5.50, 236pp, pb, cover by Roger Loveless) [Lucky 13th] Reissue (Ace 1994) military SF novel, first in the series featuring the “Lucky 13th” spaceborne. Copyrighted by Bill Fawcett and Associates. Second printing.
• * *The Varayan Memoir #1: Son of the Hero (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45026-4, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $3.95, 256pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel about a boy who enters a fantasy world to search for his parents, first book of a series.
• * *The Varayan Memoir #2: The Hero of Varay (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45091-4, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $3.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel, second book of a series. A college student becomes a hero in a fantasy world.
• * *The Varayan Memoir #3: The Hero King (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45155-4, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $4.99, 288pp, pb, cover by Daniel R. Horne) [Varayan Memoir] Fantasy novel with sf elements, third in a series.

SHELTON, GREG

• * *Chasing the Cosmic Wind (Sterling House 1-56315-X, 1998 [Oct ’98], $19.95, 182pp, tp) SF novel. A spacecraft crashes off Maui and aliens invade human bodies to communicate.

SHENK, ROBERT, ed. (stories)

• * _The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench See entry under Richard M. McKenna.

SHENNAN, MARGARET (1933- )

• * *The Devil’s Diagonal (Swallow 0-86267-258-9, Oct ’89, £2.25, 124pp, pb, cover by Scoular Anderson) Young-adult fantasy novel.